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Buter Daaler Halwa
Ingredients
- 2 cups daal lentils soaked
- 4 cups sugar make syrup
- 1 ½ -2 cups ghee mot butter
- Cinnamon
- Cardamom
- Saffron soaked in warm water
- Almonds and pistachios soaked in water
- 2 cups milk
Instructions
- Boil soaked lentils in milk. Blend the mixture once boiled and cooled. Add ghee to the blended mixture and blend once more.
- Heat some ghee with cardamom and cinnamon and add blended mixture to work. Do not add the sugar syrup yet.
- Keep frying until your arms come off and mixture is nearly golden brown.
- Add syrup little by little and keep tasting until the desired sweetness is achieved.
- Continue frying till ghee separates from mixture.
- For color, sprinkle some granulated sugar and keep frying till the color makes you smile and reminds you of me.
- Now set aside and turn off heat. Let cool slightly, then add half the saffron mixture and half the chopped almonds and pistachios.
- Brush serving dish with ghee. Pour halwa in dish.
- Pat it down with a fork.
- Garnish with remaining almonds, pistachio and saffron.